6th Season, 2023-24
6th Season, 2023-24
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Sunday, October 1 , 2023 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
The Lee Trio
The Lee Trio
Melinda Lee Masur, piano
Lisa Lee, violin
Angela Lee, cello
The Lee Trio is an award-winning piano trio made up of three sisters from San Francisco, each a virtuosic performer and accomplished musician. Since its critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall debut in 2002, the Lee Trio has earned a place on the international stage. Winners of the Recording Prize at the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition in Finland, and the Gotthard-Schierse-Stiftung grant in Berlin for rising international artists, the Lee Trio has given recitals and masterclasses in San Francisco, Shanghai, New York, Toronto, London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Kiev, Cluj-Napoca and Leipzig. They have recorded for the Innova and Delos labels.
Program:
Joaquín Turina, Circulo - Fantasia for Piano, Violin and Violincello, Op.91
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op.1, No.1
Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No.3 in c minor, Op.101
"Gripping immediacy and freshness…rich palette of tone colours" -The Strad
photo: Rachel Chaney
Friday, November 17, 2023, at 7pm
Special event at The Vacaville Museum
213 Buck Ave, Vacaville, CA 95688
Thalea String Quartet
Thalea String Quartet
Alex Cox, cello
Kumiko Sakamoto, violin
Lauren Spaulding, viola
Christopher Whitley, violin
The Thalea String Quartet has performed across North America, Europe, and China, appearing at the Kennedy Center, Massey Hall, and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. They have shared the stage with luminaries of the chamber music world, including members of the Emerson, Borromeo and St Lawrence String Quartets, and have performed alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, acclaimed Canadian band BADBADNOTGOOD, and visionary R+B artist Charlotte Day Wilson.
Winners of the 2021 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Educator Award, Thalea were top prize winners at the 2018 Fischoff Competition and 2018 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. In 2019-20, they served as Associated Artists at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium and the Quartet-in-Residence at New York’s Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Thalea String Quartet is currently the Doctoral Fellowship String Quartet at the University of Maryland.
Program:
Akshaya Avril Tucker - Radha in the Forest (2020) (soprano and string quartet)
Missy Mazzoli - Death Valley Junction (2010)
Caroline Shaw - Valencia (2012)
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in F major, op. 135 (1826)
“Thalea never failed to deliver a stirring performance.” -Calgary Herald
photo: Curtis Perry
Sunday, March 3 , 2024 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
Touchstone
Touchstone
Shira Kammen, vielle, harp, voice
Peter Maund, percussion
Experts in the performance of music from the medieval period, Shira Kammen and Peter Maund have collaborated and recorded with many of the most renown ensembles of our times, including Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Hesperion XX, Project Ars Nova, The Kings Noyse, and the Boston Camerata. Both Shira and Peter also play multiple genres of traditional music, including Celtic, Sephardic, Balkan.
Shira Kammen specializes in medieval bowed string instruments. She is admired for her concern to reproduce on them the subtleties of vocal music, and for her skill as an improviser— all underpinned by her devotion to the scholarship of medieval music. A native of the East Bay, Shira has a degree in music from U.C. Berkeley.
Peter Maund is a San Francisco native— he studied percussion at the San Francisco Conservatory, and music, folklore, and ethnomusicology at U.C. Berkeley. His performing career has taken him to Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), the Kennedy Center, Teatro Monumental (Madrid), Lincoln Center, the Edinburgh Festival, and more.
“Rich and varied…light and gracious…music filled with joy and hope…a vielle full of energy…” -Journal L’Union, France
“The most considerate and imaginative of percussionists.” -Glasgow Herald
Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 3pm
at Rancho Flaubert
7059 Bucktown Lane, Vacaville, CA 95688
An Afternoon of Johannes Brahms
An Afternoon of Johannes Brahms
Alison Lee, piano
Isaac Pastor-Chermak, cello
Hope Nelson, mezzo soprano
Three Bay Area musicians join together for two songs by Brahms set for voice, piano, and cello, and his two sonatas for cello and piano.
Alison Lee is a top prize winner of many competitions including the Midwest International Piano Competition, Thursday Musical’s Scholarship Competition and the Dorothy Van Waynen Piano Competition. She has been a concerto soloist with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra and Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and has also performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Da Camera of Houston, and Earplay.
Hope Nelson is from Pacifica, California. She is currently a candidate for the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has performed roles from Kurt Weill to Mozart with companies including Long Beach Opera, Opera San Jose, Chautauqua Opera Conservatory, University of British Columbia Opera.
Isaac Pastor-Chermak is Principal Cellist of Vallejo Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and Eisenstadt (Austria) Classical Music Festival, Assistant Principal Cellist of Opera San Jose and Fresno Philharmonic, a member of Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Monterey Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic. In 2023, he was guest principal cellist of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Oregon.
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